Software Engineer, Graviton Software, Annapurna Labs

Join the AWS Graviton Software team as a Software Engineer focused on system performance. You will enhance the performance of the Graviton processor and help decide the features of future Graviton generations. Your role involves developing software for performance analysis and building services and improving performance of open source software and helping customers with their Graviton migration. This position offers exposure to diverse technologies including hypervisor, firmware, operating systems, cloud services, machine learning, databases, and visualization tools. While expertise in all these areas isn't required at the start, you'll have the opportunity to learn from experts as you help build innovative cloud services that advance AWS Graviton's performance.

Key job responsibilities

As a Graviton Software Developer, you will have the opportunity to learn and contribute on a variety of different projects:

• Develop services to analyze Graviton's hardware and software performance
• Build automated systems for data collection and analysis
• Implement ML-based pattern detection in data
• Design and maintain systems to collect and analyze data
• Create intuitive visualization dashboards
• Develop performance analysis software for hardware and software
• Build automated systems for processor, OS, and workload performance monitoring
• Use performance tools (sysstat, sysctl, perf, APerf) to resolve software bottlenecks
• Apply and expand your expertise in system design and data analysis

* This role provides opportunity to work with multiple programming languages including * C/C++, ARM Assembly, Python

You don't need expertise in all these areas - you'll learn from experienced team members.

you'll have opportunities to contribute to the community.

A day in the life

Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon's culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn't about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it's about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

Mentorship & Career Growth

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

About the team

Annapurna Labs, part of AWS, created Graviton as a strategic ARM-based CPU initiative to revolutionize cloud computing at Amazon scale. Graviton instances deliver superior performance, cost efficiency, and reduced carbon footprint compared to traditional x86 solutions. The Graviton Software organization drives customer and internal team migrations to Graviton by optimizing and stabilizing software ecosystems, contributing to open source projects (including Linux kernel, operating systems, compilers, libraries, and ML frameworks), developing automated services, and maintaining public documentation. Our work enables AWS customers and Amazon teams to leverage Graviton's advantages in performance, cost, stability, and energy efficiency.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.